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Bulletin Gary F California State Library Foundation Number 98 2010 California State Library Foundation Number 98 2010 EDITOR Bulletin Gary F. Kurutz 2 � � � � � � � � Stitching the Picture Together: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Kathleen Correia A Profile of Vincent Beiderbecke By M. Patricia Morris COPY EDITOR M. Patricia Morris 12� � � � � � � My Part of 100 Years of California County Library History BOARD OF DIRECTORS By Gary E. Strong Kenneth B. Noack, Jr. President 18� � � � � � � Daguerreotyping John Rollin Ridge, George Basye Vice-President the First Native American Novelist Thomas E. Vinson By Gary F. Kurutz Treasurer Donald J. Hagerty 24� � � � � � � New Legislator Profiles: Assembly Members Secretary Alyson Huber and Paul Fong Stacey Aldrich By Mimi Morris State Librarian of California 27� � � � � � � Foundation Notes Robert Dickover JoAnn Levy Allan Forbes Sue T. Noack Foundation Board Meets in Woodland Herbert Hunn Marilyn Snider JoAnn Levy & Philip Isenberg Elected to Board Phillip L. Isenberg Thomas W. Stallard Mead B. Kibbey Sandra Swafford State Library Muybridge Images in Traveling Exhibition Early Abraham Lincoln Document Discovered Gary F. Kurutz Julia Schaw Foundation Announces New Publication: The Final Days Executive Director Administrative Assistant of Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Shelley Ford Bookkeeper 32� � � � � � � Contributors List The California State Library Foundation Bulletin is Note: Recent issues of The Bulletin, including this one, may be viewed published when we are able. © 2004-2010. in full color on our website at www.cslfdn.org. Opinions of the authors are their own and do not Front Cover: This striking 1897 La Fiesta de Los Angeles poster was necessarily reflect the opinions of their institutions, the California State Library or the Foundation. one of 2,400 oversize pictures and maps photographed by Vincent Beiderbecke. The Bulletin is included as a membership benefit to Foundation members and those individuals Back Cover: Gold Rush author and artist Frank Marryat produced the contributing $40.00 or more annually to Foundation drawing for this beautiful c. 1851 chromolithograph of San Francisco. Programs. Membership rates are: See article on pages 2-11. Associate: $40-$99 Illustrations: Pages 24 and 25 courtesy of Assembly Members Contributor: $100-249 Huber and Fong; all others from the California History Section, Sponsor: $250-$499 Patron: $500-$999 California State Library. Institutional: $500 Photography and scans by Vincent Beiderbecke Corporate: $750 Lifetime Member: $1,000 Design: Angela Tannehill, Tannehill Design Pioneer: $5,000 California State Library Foundation Subscription to Libraries: $30/year 1225 8th Street, Suite 345, Sacramento, CA 95814 tel: 916.447.6331 web: www.cslfdn.org email: [email protected] Bulletin Number 98 1 Stitching the Picture Together: A Profile of Vincent Beiderbecke By M. Patricia Morris Wreck of the Viscata near Fort Point, San Francisco, 1868. Albumen mammoth plate photograph by C. E. Watkins. 15½ x 21¼ in. incent Beiderbecke didn’t hesitate when asked the most “important and prestigious presidents of the United what project he had enjoyed doing the most. “It’s States,” as he described him. “It’s just an appointment for a mil- right over there,” he said pointing to a neatly itary officer,” he said, “But still, just the fact that it was signed by labeled document folder on his cubicle table. “It’s a certificate Abraham Lincoln, it just blew me away.” of Nomination and Appointment of N. P. Chipman to the Rank Nearly three years ago, in June 2007, the State Library hired of Colonel in the Service of the United States Armed Forces.” Vincent Beiderbecke as a student assistant to scan photographs, What had impressed Vincent so much about this official paper art work, and other documents for the Library’s digitization proj- was the signature in green ink, a signature belonging to one of ect. The project was initiated in the late 1990s to help preserve these materials electronically and make them more readily avail- able to the public through online access. The program today is M. Patricia Morris is a frequent contributor to the Bulletin. Cur- directed by Senior Librarian Marianne Leach, who along with rently, she is helping the Library create an online exhibit featuring other members of the California History Section staff, create the historic California cookbooks. catalog records that go with each of the images Vincent scans. 2 California State Library Foundation Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s Steamer City of Peking, c. 1875. Albumen mammoth plate published by Thomas Houseworth & Co. 27¾ x 21¾ in. Bulletin Number 98 3 (Above) University of California, Berkeley, c. 1875. Albumen mammoth plate photograph by C. E. Watkins. 15 x 20½ in. (Right) Frisbie House and Pier, Vallejo, c. 1876. Albumen mammoth plate photograph by C. E. Watkins. 14¾ x 21¼ in. 4 California State Library Foundation Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Depot. Albumen mammoth plate photograph by C. E. Watkins. 15 x 21¼ in. Vincent’s work requires a high degree of technical skill and the computer program Adobe® Photoshop®, you put all these computer savvy. “It is very important that you get the color right; together. He said in this way, “You can make a very high resolu- that the resolution is high enough so that people in the future tion final image with several hundred megabytes of detail.” It is can make very large reproductions and very large prints of these a process of literally “stitching the photograph together.” documents for exhibitions or for study.” Vincent loves his work as a scanning technician and wouldn’t Sometimes, though, documents are too big for the scan- mind at all if it turned into a permanent position. “The beauty ner, and that’s when the ability to use a camera skillfully is of the job,” he said, “is that every day you get to see something essential. A photography major at California State University, different. You get to see a new collection of postcards, or ste- Sacramento, Vincent recently had an opportunity to use his reographs, or oversized photographs. The job never gets boring photography skills when the Library rented a high resolution because of that.” digital camera to photograph 2,400 oversized documents that Vincent has no time to become bored. He is a full-time stu- included images by two of the most renowned photographers dent, taking four classes and holding down two and occasion- of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Eadweard Muy- ally three other jobs in addition to his assistantship at the State bridge and Carleton Watkins, as well as photographs from the Library. On Saturdays, he is employed as a darkroom assistant Library’s Gladding McBean collection, plates from large folio at Sacramento State, where he opens and closes the labs and books, and lots of bird’s-eye views. helps other students with traditional black and white printing. It wasn’t possible to capture some of the larger images in He sells tickets at the Hornets’ sporting events, and if the oppor- one take, even with the camera rented for this effort. Vincent tunity arises, plays his violin at wedding gigs. explained that when you have a document as large as some Music is no minor diversion for him. He is, in fact, an accom- bird’s-eye views, you have to use a telephoto lens to take one, plished violinist. Exuding his enthusiasm for the instrument, two, three, or more photographs in a pattern, and then using he explains, “When people say they play an instrument, the vio- Bulletin Number 98 5 6 California State Library Foundation (Above) Vincent prepares to shoot one of the 2,400 oversize images from the Library’s California History Section with the ingenious track mechanism he created to hold the camera with which he photographed the oversize prints and photographs. (Left) Half Dome, Yosemite. Albumen mammoth plate photograph by C. E. Watkins. (Below) San Francisco at the height of the Gold Rush, c. 1851. This beautiful chromolithograph was published in London from an image created by noted author Frank Marryat. 18¾ x 27¼ in. Bulletin Number 98 7 lin — A violinist should say, I play two instruments, because A year or so ago, Vincent formed a musical trio with some you have to play the left hand, which is a whole technique unto friends called the River City Classical Trio. The group per- itself, and you also have play the right hand for the bow, which formed at weddings and other similar gigs. Unfortunately, the is another completely different technique.” It is a very difficult opportunities to play at weddings seem to have declined with thing, Vincent says, to put these “two completely different tech- the economy. niques and ideas together.” But to him, it is worth the challenge, A number of people have told Vincent, “I gave up the violin; time, and money to do it. I gave up the piano; I gave up a musical instrument when I He has taken private lessons for most of the fourteen years he was younger, and I very much regret that.” He doesn’t want to has pursued the instrument and still takes lessons with Anna be that kind of person. Although he does not plan to pursue Presler at Sac State. He has played in several area orchestras, a career as a professional musician, he wants to keep playing, including the Sacramento Youth Symphony, Sacramento State at least in community orchestras. No matter what other obli- Symphony, The Academy at All Hallows Orchestra, and Folsom gations are clamoring for his attention, he tries to pick up his Lake Symphony Orchestra. Whose music does Vincent favor? violin every day to practice. The answer is Austrian composer Gustav Mahler above all oth- As a native Californian born and raised in Sacramento, Vin- ers, particularly for his nine symphonies, noted for their length cent tells you that Sacramento holds attractions for him beyond and expansive view of the world.
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